[kj] OT: Stop this man

Brendan bq at soundgardener.co.nz
Wed Mar 19 18:51:37 EDT 2008


I haven't read your link yet, don't need to, there's not much doubt in my
mind that Leary ripped that off, the whole voice-box joke etc...I used to
like Leary until I learned about Hicks, but I wouldn't touch him with a
barge pole now. Not that I've EVER come across a barge pole in my entire
life. But if I did, well, I can tell you boyo, one thing I would NOT do,
would be to use it to touch Denis Leary with.

I mean, if Denis Leary walked in here right now, and handed me a barge
pole, I'd spit right in his fucking third eye ;)

I've got loads of Hicks on my PC, it's eminently replayable. Now his brand
of misanthropy (or call it cynicism) I can get with...and his brand of
utopian vision as well. No real paradox there. You can be a zealot and a
cynic at the same time. That's my philosophy wrapped up in a nutshell. I
wouldn't be surprised if Hicks was a Robert Anton Wilson fan too.

It'd be a tough call, but if I had to chose my favourite comedian it'd be
Bill Hicks.


> Bill Hicks was ill with cancer and passed away from the word in 1994. In

> 1993 is when Leary did "No Cure for Cancer."

>

> In fact there are allegations that Leary directly plagiarized from Bill

> Hicks:

>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks#Allegations_of_plagiarism_towards_Denis_Leary

>

> -Oliver

>

>

> ade wrote:

>> Totally. Particularly the smoking sketch :)

>>

>> Sadly, I saw Leary do it first, loved 'No Cure for Cancer' & then when I

>> found Hicks, well, it sort've tainted anything Leary does for ever more

>

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